Cybersecurity Threat Analyst - Remote

Overview

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode, fueled by a recent $190m series C round.

In Short

• Analyze and evaluate anomalous network and system events in a 24x7x365 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment via conducting lead-less threat hunting.
• Collaborate with MDR Analysts to research and investigate emerging cyber security threats; become an escalation point of contact for advanced intrusion analysis.
• Develop Incident analysis reports and work across business units and customers to bring issues to a close.
• Help design and build operational processes and procedures to improve overall SOC efficiency.
• Provide actionable threat and vulnerability analysis based on security events for many independent customer environments.
• Build test lab environments to research emerging techniques and make contributions to the internal and external knowledge development of threat operations.
• Review sandbox technologies for additional IOCs uncovered from artifacts uncovered during analysis.

Requirements

• Five (5+) years of experience in an information security role. Progressive relevant training and/or certification may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement.
• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Two (2+) years of experience with triaging endpoint events from EDR, NGAV, and supporting the Incident Response (IR) process.
• Deep knowledge on assessing threat indicators in a Windows Environment (e.g. Malware/Malicious Anomalies/Abnormal network Activity/Root Level Compromise, Forensic Artifacts, etc.).
• Robust understanding of at least two of the following: Windows, Linux or OSX.
• Familiarity with ELK stack (Dashboards, Logstash Config, Searching) Scripting / Programming with Powershell, Python, and Go.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3 and IAM and Azure/M365.
• Experience in developing, refining, and performing leadless threat hunting analysis to uncover new or potential incidents and report on results.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to deconstruct issues (hunting anomalous pattern detection).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively summarize and present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans.
• Robust 401k plan.
• Discretionary Time Off.
• Other minor perks.